VA HEALTHCARE SYSTEM MOBILE OR TRAILERS
LOCATION
Miami, FL
OWNER/CLIENT
Department of Veterans Affairs
COST
$1.6M
COMPLETION
2011
CES was the General Contractor commissioned to provide site preparation and construction services for a climate-controlled corridor/storage complex located on the east side of Building No. 1 of the Miami Veterans Affairs Healthcare System Facility located at 1201 NW 16th Street. This corridor was to be an ambulatory care addition between the emergency room’s ambulance entrance canopy and the Spinal Cord Center’s entrance canopy.
The project involved the construction of a climate-controlled corridor attached to the existing hospital, which incorporated five MMIC Mobile Surgical Units and one MMIC Mobile Staff Unit into one complete surgical suite. CES provided all necessary utility requirements to provide the power, communication, electrical, water, sanitary, and medical gas services necessary to make the units fully operational. CES worked from a set of design drawings produced by Mobile Medical International Corporation (MMIC).
Construction services included:
- Providing all materials necessary to construct the trailers
- Providing all necessary utilities for the complete operation
- Ensuring handicap compliance
- Providing all necessary structural, architectural, civil, and systems to make the trailer complex fully operational, to include electrical, plumbing, HVAC, fire protection, alarm, masonry, roofing, flooring, steel joists, and painting
- Providing all safety precautions on the project site
- Abiding by the Medical Center Construction policy
- Providing all necessary product submittals to the COTR
- Providing a set of red line as-built drawings to the VA
- Providing daily logs and safety sheets to the COTR